Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet Volume IX: Pack 005: Paravane...

Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet

Volume IX: Pack 005: Paravane Committee. Sections N and Q: Minesweeping: Misc. Mining papers.

Folio 1: Title page.

Folio 2: Explanatory note. During the period of the War, papers of a confidential nature in the office of the C-in-C Home Fleet were filed in Packs (numbered separately from the non-confidential records) in a Series 001 to 0042 inclusive. Copies of relevant telegrams were filed in these packs, but a complete set of all telegrams was also maintained. The secret packs were re-arranged by the Grand Fleet Secretarial staff in February 1919, when papers considered unimportant were removed and destroyed, and the remainder re-indexed. They were received in this form by the Historical Section in April 1920, and bound as received, in a series of Volumes. The 1919 index will be found in the first volume (see ADM 137/1881) and extracts from this have been inserted in each succeeding volume. This volume is the 9th of the series.

Folio 3: Index of contents. Trade – The Blockade.

Folios 4-7: Blank.

Folio 8: Contents page.

Section N: Progress of development of the Paravane Department (PV).

Folios 9-251: Reports of the Paravane Department.

Folios 252-357*: Reports of the Grand Fleet Paravane Committee.

Folios 356-532: Reports of running Paravanes.

Section Q: Miscellaneous mining papers.

Folios 539-552: Proposal for minimising the loss of life in minesweepers.

Folios 553-564: Drift in the North Sea.

Folios 565-589: Experiments to ascertain whether ships will be struck by a floating mine.

Folios 590-593: Effect of minelaying in the Heligoland Bight.

Folios 594-609: German methods of minelaying.

Folios 610-614: Minelaying in the Baltic.

Folios 614a-621: Cruise of the Atlantic Fleet September 1919. Precautions

*Folios 307-329: Mining of HMS Dahlia